America

Not even the president’s ego and Fifa’s greed have managed to stop the joy of this World Cup

Expecting to escape scrutiny over that £5m donation was a huge blunder – and a gift to Burnham

Disruption has failed – and America looks diminished and declining

I thought supporting both teams would be a win-win. It stopped feeling like one shortly after kick-off

Facing defeat in the mid-term elections, Trump decides that the only possible answer is war. 

They picked Graham Platner as a candidate in Maine because he was a bit like Joe Rogan. But it didn’t work. In fact, it was a complete catastrophe

How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age

Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth

Women are getting the needle with the president – but history shows many examples of the use of knitting as a tool for protest

The architects of the Constitution drew it up to restrain men exactly like Donald Trump. He’s a scar on the July 4 celebrations

Revolution is the national myth of the US. But another country’s quieter history shows its importance may be overstated

Trump banned non-Americans from using Anthropic’s most powerful model. That decision has now been reversed, but it sets a dangerous precedent

It’s all about Trump – it was always going to be all about him. Did you really expect anything else?

Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, MAGA is working in concert with the British far right to rebuild the UK in a Trumpian image

Trump wants to change the rules around building in the great wild spaces of the US west. But if he gets his way, something fundamental will be lost that can never be won back

Trump’s escapade against Iran achieved nothing. Instead, it cost huge amounts in both money and lives, and he can’t get Israel to stop fighting in Lebanon

The former Federal Reserve chair is dead at 100. Once regarded with awe, the financial crisis made clear he wasn’t what he appeared

Organised criminals have been abducting and disappearing people in Mexico for years. But the same is now happening in the US, and there the perpetrator is even more powerful

Like Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford, his brilliance is paired with a callous disregard for human values

The US is not allowing anyone with ebola into the country, so the government has built a treatment centre for Americans in Kenya. It’s the one nation in the region that’s clear of the disease. Locals are not happy

Graham Platner looked like the perfect Democrat candidate to fight the Maine senate contest at the coming midterm elections. He won the nomination – and that’s when the problems started

Netanyahu knows that this is his chance to defeat Iran, the goal he has pursued for his entire political career. He’s not about to let the opportunity go

The night was tacky, over-commercial and at times just downright weird. But I’ve followed the sport for years and a fighting legend finally got the victory he deserved

US President’s media business co-owns technology firm now backed by Britain

Former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney would have stopped the money-grabbing mixing of political and family business

His fortune and empire are more fragile than his IPO’s backers believe

On a tour of the president’s fighting cage, the first thing you notice is that it’s huge: like some horrific thing from outer space. But if you get your camera out, be careful. The Secret Service are watching

He has committed a huge number of crimes and for most people, that would mean prosecution and jail time. But despite Trump’s rampant corruption, there’s a problem

Steven Spielberg's new aliens movie arrives at the perfect moment for US conspiracy culture

There’s one good reason why the Reform leader spends so much time with Americans whose politics is considered poisonous by UK voters. His bank balance

Obedient to Trump and with America’s security apparatus at his disposal, Bill Pulte has the potential to cause huge damage

His gaudy White House UFC event is taking place just as those who love and take part in the sport are deserting his presidency